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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1,1936.
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SATURDAY, FER. 1, 1936.
AERIAL PROGRESS
Japan's known nervousness regarding the growth of the Russian
Air Force, of which there have been many indica- tions Intterly, is understandable when it is claimed that there is ground for thinking that the Soviet at present leads the world in this particular sphere. In one of the latest publications, Jane's "All the World's Air- there is little informa- craft," tion given regarding the Ger- man aerial defence force, whilst Russia is also to some extent a mystery, But according to a British aviation expert, although it is more or less open to ques- tion whether the United States,
Germany or Russia possess the Roar:greatest number of military and naval aircraft, the probability is that the Soviet tops the list,
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APPOINTMENTS
- ENTREE DISHES
Bad tempered
at
breakfast
by JAMES
DOUGLAS
THE readers of a London
Newspaper are seriously and solemnly trying to dis- eever the cause and the cure of Breakfastitis, the
British malady.
Breakfastitis is bad temper at the British breakfast. Mr. Farmer, of Finch- ley, started this clusive hare.
Although he and his wife are the happiest couple in the world they squabble, in the morning. Little things irritate them then more than at any other time of day:
Why is it? The rush to the office. anys a wife. His razor has been "hid- den" or his shoes are not clean, Also she can stay in bed longer, with the pros- pect of an easy day ahead. She advises wives to get up first and supervise 'mas- culine comforts.
Another wife says that she has been married twenty-three years, and that she and her husband have never quarrelled, because she wakes him up with a cup of
ten.
Brend winners, she declares, should' be well looked after.
Another wife attributes the blenk
no.s
British breakfast table to the Man of the. THE desperate remedies prescribed for Break- House making his family respect his fastitis prove that this British disease is Awful Majesty, He glowers over his desperate. paper because he saw his father. do it.-
They are the counsels of pessimism rather She calls on us to debunk this domestic than optimism. Take, for example, the ancient dictator.
British habit of singing in the bath.
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“Do you??
want another
ed or don't
you ?”
For many years I rose at six and brewed my own tea. Oh! these winter mornings! I shiver when I think of
them. I trudged through rain, bail, sleet and snow to the old Underground station and read the morning papers in the sul- phurous train.
By half-past seven I was writing my leading article with cold feet. Thus I laid the foundations for my blessed asthma, which at last endowed me with the privilege of breakfast in bed.
Asthma is worth it. No more Break- fastitis! We Britons are Spartans. We need an excuse for breakfasting in bed, the martyr's paradise.
NOTES OF THE DAY the false gaiety of a man without a voice or an ear will do. Influenza is a fine passport.
COST OF LIVING
One cannot blame the housewife for her complaint of the high, and the bottom dropped out of the ex- ever-higher, cost of living. Since change market and Hongkong cur- rency fell with a crash, Madame
I cannot imagine anything more maddening than
warbling or even crooning to his loofah. There is something to be said on behalf of the coward who whistles to keep his courage up.
But bathology is a form of pathology. It may help a husband to howl himself into a good temper. a well-established fact that all murderers sing in their but it puts everybody else into a bad temper. It is
baths. It is a sadistic sign.
I have no faith in the gramophone cure for Break- fastitis. Who wants to be gramophoned into good humour? Who could eat porridge to a foxtrot or devour à rasher to a rumba? Who could waltz to a kipper?
In a perfect world everybody would have break fast in bed. There would be no such thing as the community breakfast.
SIDE GLANCES
Of course, any good reliable disease. With care anybody can catch it. In our climate it is easy to be bedridden.
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BUT even the hale and healthy can cure out the aid of any chronic allment.. Eat wisely and not too well.
themselves of Breakfastitis, with-
It is the British breakfast, the British
luncheon, the British tea, and the British dinner which are the true and only be getters of Breakfastitis.
Eat only when you are hungry. will wake with the lark and sing like the Drink only when you are dry. Then you lark. Have the courage to cut out break fast and tea if you lead a sedentary life. There is no need to be bad-tempered if you ure temperate, Lawrence of meal a day. When he dined with me he Arabia was happy and fit on one spare
used to say he would be forced to fast for three days."
By George Clark
In the case of Germany, the al- has been at her wits end trying to make both ends meet on the most complote absence of allowance she received before the information in the publication į dreadful decline of the dollar. She named has a special significance, probably realises now that many
One cynic recommends half an foodstuffs and the stables of the
ounce of yeast. New
the planes illustrated being, household routine have advanced
Another Timon suggests a good dose of salts. with few exceptions, commercial from twenty to forty per cent, in
I prefer either of those terrible cures to the awful and small craft. It is, however, price. She still cannot understand advice to take a brisk walk for ten minutes on an empty Stocks
why. to be noted that the railway failen, she is told, and tradesmen ask, "Whose?" Certainly, not on mine.
Because the dollar has stomach. As Sydney Smith would retort, I can only rolling-stock firm which made have to pay so many more Hong- Arrived "Gotha bombers during the kong dollars for the foreign goods war has, after a long interval, understand why a tin of baby food they import. Still she cannot re-entered the field of aeroplane jumps from $2.80 to $4.40 or the manufacture. But if there is price of bread rises by twenty per still much mystery with regard level of the dollar was approximate- cent. Because, she says, when the to the Air Forces of the variously what it is to-day in 1934 prices countries, there is no lack of were much the same as when the detailed information concerning dollar climbed to the neighbour- the civil flying side. The won-hood of two shillings a year later. derful history of aviation during Marcover, Madame insists, when the past quarter of a century the dollar went up and stayed up can be best appreciated by a for quite an appreciable time, there glance at the 1910 volume of was no. appreciable reduction in the publication mentioned, in
prices until just before it tumbled which, with scarcely an excep must point out, have a logical ex- again. All of these things, we tion, the illustrations are of planation. But Madamo has no freak machines held together by interest in logic. She wants wire and indifferent wood, and know what the price of sugar and in which the "notable" speed of tea and broad and butter will be 48 m.p.h. is recorded. It is to-morrow and the next day, be- now shown that on the civil side cause she has to budget; and her Britain is expanding at husband's pay has just been cut. greater rate than
any other
"STARTING SOMETHING country, and of 146 illustrations. of her aeroplanes and engines given in the latest volume, no.
Moscow says the Japanese- fewer than 112 are entirely new. Japan, has said, before now, that Manchurians are invading Russia. Performance figures reveal the Russian influence is stirring the fact that 200 m.p.h. is but Mongols to a dangerous extent: moderate nowadays, a striking Almost every week came reports contrast to the speeds of that one side or the other has twenty-five years ago." In-view "Invaded" the neighbour's terri- of contradictory claims as to tory. The latest episode, according the performance of new Ameri- to the Russian version, is serious. can flying boats it may be in- A good number of men were in- teresting to quote the figures volved in the fighting about given in this work. Thus, the (Continued on “Pago" 4J Sikorsky S.42 A has an all-on.
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"Don't you think it would be afte if I asked those single
follows at your office in for dinner to-night?"
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BULLS AND INNERS
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From the Office Butts
The Interport soccer in Shang- hai was played in a snowstorm. Hongkong seemed to understand the drift of the game, however.
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It is hoped that the first ship-
monts of American' vegetables will
cultural show,
arrive in tinie. for our local horli-
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គ.
We sympathise, with the racing
foal born in Hongkong. We were
once a little hoarse ourselves.
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Following the report that a Har-
bin tiger was sold for $1,300, it Is understood that local brokers are organising a safari to the Now Territories.
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O. O One thing which the interport: matches in Shanghai proved was that the Hongkong players weren't suffering from myopic aloofness when they got within range of goal.
One of the dronics of the Civil Service pay-cut is that it should be Instituted in Leap Year, and thus involve an extra day's work.
Then there was the taipan who promised to talk next day to a mem ber of his staff about an increase in piny, but had the misfortune.to Jose his voice overnight.